The milder epithets

Cloud · 02-13-2007, 11:22 AM

So, what do you say when the situation doesn't warrant a good rattlin' swear word, or you are around little ones, or if you're just not the type to curse?

Some of my favorites:

Rats!
Harpo, Crappo, & Zeppo

Pie · 02-13-2007, 11:58 AM

emmer-effer
before an anticipated unpleasant experience: "buying stock in cheeseborough-ponds"
"Rehab!" == you've just said something you should be ashamed of, back to rehab for you (like all the other celebs)

Cloud · 02-13-2007, 12:24 PM

what?

Pie · 02-13-2007, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

what?

What what?

wolf · 02-13-2007, 12:40 PM

When I need to curse in front of a friend's children, a lot of sputtering and stammering is usually involved. Sometimes followed by an apology, which can be ruined by starting off ... "Oh shit, I'm sorry I said *really bad word*."

Under ordinary circumstances, I embarass sailors.

As a long time reader of Elfquest, I have been known to resort to "puckernuts" on occasion. Rare occasion. I don't usually use the made up bad words from SciFi channel like my friends do. Never really got into that one with the blue not quite chick and the farting alien. My friends say "Frill" a lot.

Urbane Guerrilla · 02-14-2007, 02:43 AM

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When I need to curse . . .
Under ordinary circumstances, I embarass sailors.

As a long time reader of Elfquest, I have been known to resort to "puckernuts" on occasion. Rare occasion. I don't usually use the made up bad words from SciFi channel like my friends do. Never really got into that one with the blue not quite chick and the farting alien. My friends say "Frill" a lot.

It does manage to sound a bit more ferocious than the somehow formal "Owl pellets!" or the etiolated "Curse it!" and "Dung!" resorted to because Wendy and Richard Pini would prefer not to even push at the edge of PG.

Sometimes I'll disarm it all by pushing it right over the top: "Jesus Hexametrous Christ!" I haven't yet used hexavalent.

More typically, it'll be more concise: "Oh, wombats!!" "Git in there, you... wombat!"

If I'm being intellectual, I'll display my grasp of something most Americans would call esoteric -- my grasp of Russian mat' picked up in a previous career. Baaaad Russian obscenity is Yob' tvoyu mat'! and with a sincere enough delivery it can start fights at least in civilian contexts. Not-quite-obscene obscenity is to invent or compose phrases of words that start with the letters Yo and M. "Yo' Mama" might actually work, especially among Russians fluent and versed in both English and American pop culture! Naprimer, "Yolki-Matalki" -- a Yo-M phrase that literally means "sticks of fir" and might to effect be recast into English expletive as "Fiddlesticks!" f'r Pete's sake. Something like Yob' tvoyu babushku v rot with any other details one cares to add (I add in false teeth) drags your grandmother into this, and oral sex too. Though I think by then it starts to get funny. However, Tvoya babushka yebaetsya s kitaiskimi soldatami is probably usually used seriously -- how would you take being told your grandma debauches herself with Chinese soldiers? Russians are culture-conditioned against oral sex -- whores only, you see -- and this also plays upon the never too buried Russian paranoia about foreigners.

And my wombats occasionally mix in, with Vombatskaya blyad'! which sounds a bit like Dracula throwing up, and which might be freely cast into English as "Wombat bitch!" Your mileage may vary.

Cloud · 02-13-2007, 12:55 PM

I think it's "frell" and the blue plant lady was awesome!

wolf · 02-13-2007, 04:02 PM

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I think it's "frell" and the blue plant lady was awesome!

Thank you. See, I told you I didn't watch it much!

For some reason, perhaps I've had a ministroke or somesuch, I have caught myself saying "Golly Gosh." I am not sure what has motivated this.

perth · 02-13-2007, 01:22 PM

"nammit". I have a friend who uses this as his catchphrase and is constantly finding new and wonderful uses for it. He got me saying it before my son was even born and it's served me well. Correct pronunciation requires that you do it in either a poor impression of Cartman or a low rumbling, maybe how it would be said could King Kong say it.

ferret88 · 02-13-2007, 01:38 PM

I use "Feh!" a lot. Have also been known to tell someone to "Blank off."

In typed things like IMs it's "carp" and "$#!T".

Trilby · 02-13-2007, 01:39 PM

I follow Eugene Levy's example. When I forget myself and begin to say the Eff word, I turn it into "FUCKeddaboudit"

barefoot serpent · 02-13-2007, 01:45 PM

jumpin' jehosefat!

it has a vaguely biblical feel to it.

Hoof Hearted · 02-13-2007, 02:56 PM

Great Googley Moogley! Has to be said with the capital letters.

Urbane Guerrilla · 02-14-2007, 02:53 AM

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Great Googley Moogley! Has to be said with the capital letters.

I've seen porno that said that... a Studio Foglio Xxxenophile story, The Sorceress' Appendage. Xxxenophile might be described as the thinking man's onehanded reading.

Pie · 02-13-2007, 03:08 PM

Dag Nabbit!

02-13-2007, 11:22 AM	#1
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	The milder epithets So, what do you say when the situation doesn't warrant a good rattlin' swear word, or you are around little ones, or if you're just not the type to curse? Some of my favorites: Rats! Harpo, Crappo, & Zeppo __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

02-13-2007, 11:58 AM	#2
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	emmer-effer before an anticipated unpleasant experience: "buying stock in cheeseborough-ponds" "Rehab!" == you've just said something you should be ashamed of, back to rehab for you (like all the other celebs) __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

02-13-2007, 12:24 PM	#3
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	what? __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

02-13-2007, 12:40 PM	#5
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	When I need to curse in front of a friend's children, a lot of sputtering and stammering is usually involved. Sometimes followed by an apology, which can be ruined by starting off ... "Oh shit, I'm sorry I said really bad word." Under ordinary circumstances, I embarass sailors. As a long time reader of Elfquest, I have been known to resort to "puckernuts" on occasion. Rare occasion. I don't usually use the made up bad words from SciFi channel like my friends do. Never really got into that one with the blue not quite chick and the farting alien. My friends say "Frill" a lot. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-13-2007, 12:55 PM	#7
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	I think it's "frell" and the blue plant lady was awesome! __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

02-13-2007, 01:22 PM	#9
perth Strong Silent Type Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Fort Collins, CO Posts: 1,949	"nammit". I have a friend who uses this as his catchphrase and is constantly finding new and wonderful uses for it. He got me saying it before my son was even born and it's served me well. Correct pronunciation requires that you do it in either a poor impression of Cartman or a low rumbling, maybe how it would be said could King Kong say it.

02-13-2007, 01:38 PM	#10
ferret88 (This space left intentionally UN-blank.) Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 604	I use "Feh!" a lot. Have also been known to tell someone to "Blank off." In typed things like IMs it's "carp" and "$#!T".

02-13-2007, 01:39 PM	#11
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I follow Eugene Levy's example. When I forget myself and begin to say the Eff word, I turn it into "FUCKeddaboudit" __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

02-13-2007, 01:45 PM	#12
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	jumpin' jehosefat! it has a vaguely biblical feel to it. __________________ Chooses rowing vs. wading

02-13-2007, 02:56 PM	#13
Hoof Hearted ...you smell something? Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Monroe, GA Posts: 420	Great Googley Moogley! Has to be said with the capital letters. __________________ I have the ability of single-minded determination and focu...Hey, look! A horse!

02-13-2007, 03:08 PM	#15
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Dag Nabbit! __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

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